Posted on 05/22/2019 7:20:24 PM PDT by ETL
BlueLineClassics
Published on Apr 30, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yYg1pKt7kM
I recall my ride in a Charger with a 440 from Schofield Barracks to Honolulu. My friend just installed a new oil pressure gauge. When we took off we noticed the smell of burning oil. Considering we were both pretty well oiled up ourselves, we did not care.
Then the rattles started in the engine which soon turned to heavy hammering, so we turned around just as we got to Honolulu.
The engine started to run very rough with little power as the hammering got louder. We got back to Schofield Barracks.
The next day after sobering up we looked it over and the plastic oil line going to the gauge melted in two and the engine pumped all the oil out that little line. On two or three cylinders the push rods wore holes in the rocker arms which was why it miss fired. The bearings were gone on all the rods which was why it hammered, but it never threw a rod.
That was one tough engine.
Wow! Lucky you were able to make it back. Did it cost him a lot to get the engine fixed?
True that. The 440 I have in a
Plymouth has a deep low rummble.
It sounds nothing like that
Charger in the vid. Nice car
though.
Believe it or not the heads and engine block were still useable. Of course the guts were all worn out from lack of lube. He sold the car for parts. His wife got after him and tamed him down to a brand new Datsun B210. Quite a transition!
Years later I bought our first Japanese car, a B210. Quite a rust bucket, but very durable and got 35 mpg. Sold it to my cousin later and it never went to the junk yard until it had 200,000 miles on it.
I see. Thanks for clarifying. I’ve never been very knowledgeable on the mechanical end of these classic American beauties, although I would definitely want a cool sounding deep “rumble” if I owned one.
Sounds like something I would have done. LOL
LOL!! Talk about a Freudian slip!
Sounds like something I would have done. LOL
For the record, I actually meant "split grill" of the 69!
I probably would have called it a Spit Grill.
We were in the truck coming home on I70 one afternoon and an older guy was pushing his trike down the shoulder of the interstate.
He’d run out of gas and the rest of his club hadn’t noticed him missing as he was at the back of the pack.
I stopped and while hubby finished pushing the guy’s trike to the exit ramp, I hauled the guy to a gas station and bought him gas.
To this day, decades later, there are several clubs [his and those affiliated with it] that watch over me like hairy angels.
:)
There are a few (3) “Freudian-like” elements in that short sentence...
“I prefer the split girl of the 69”
Wonderful story! Appears YOU are an angel yourself! Thanks for sharing.
I still love how the Government came up with regulations for Roof strength which necessitated hardtop Cars having a B Pillar when you can still buy a Convertible.
When Nikki Haley started that crap and the flag became anathema, Gettysburg Bike Week was the next month, in July.
Everybody and their dog was getting battle flag patches sewn on their leathers, even guys who, to look at them, you’d assume would be “offended” by them.
In MD and WV, roadside stands popped up selling the flags and they couldn’t keep them in stock more than a few hours.
Parrill’s Trading Post in Cross Junction VA was running out so often, they bought mass quantities and a third of the store is nothing but, now.
People who never flew or wore them suddenly started to.
And then we had that ‘shocker’ election.
:D
I’ve stopped for quite a few broken down bikers.
They’re always polite and grateful, no matter the colors.
It happens much less often now, thanks to everyone having cell phones.
Couple weeks ago, I stopped get a turtle across a road and a biker heading westbound also stopped and kept traffic from running me over while I was crossing the road both ways.
Good people.
:)
I've stopped and helped people, and animals, many times myself. In fact, even helped a turtle in the road like you did. In my case it turned out to have been a female turtle crossing a very busy stretch through a nature preserve in Broad Channel, Queens (New York).
It's the red road on the right. Named Crossbay Boulevard, it leads to Rockaway Beach from the south Queens area, not far from JFK Airport (upper right). Rockaway Beach is at the bottom. Broad Channel, btw, is a VERY patriotic area. Mostly Irish. American flags everywhere. Belle Harbor and parts of the Rockaways are too.
...that other ‘airport’ on the left, btw, is an old long-since closed airport called Floyd Bennett Field...
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“Floyd Bennett Field is an airfield in the Marine Park neighborhood of southeast Brooklyn in New York City, along the shore of Jamaica Bay.
The airport originally hosted commercial and general aviation traffic before being used as a naval air station.
Bennett Field is currently part of the Gateway National Recreation Area’s Jamaica Bay Unit, and is managed by the National Park Service (NPS).
While no longer used as an operational commercial, military, or general aviation airfield, a section is still used as a helicopter base by the New York City Police Department (NYPD). =Wikipedia
Thank you for helping her. :)
People split between helping them like we do and running them over for “fun”.
So it becomes a race against traffic to grab them up and carry them to the other side because you never know which of the two types of drivers are bearing down on you *and* the turtle.
Some punk ran over the old Snapper girl who has made her way through my yard to the bog above my house, every spring, for decades, to lay eggs.
They nearly hit a concrete retaining wall that borders a spring running under RT 40, just to kill her.
I cried.
She never hurt anyone.
Here is that road...
We have many crossing points on the mountain.
Some critters, like the salamanders and frogs, are coming down to mate in the vernal pools at the bottom and others, like the turtles are going up the mountain to lay eggs where excess ground water won’t ruin them.
Spring makes me a nervous wreck.
Yes, there are some truly sick bastards out there.
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